Omnibus Anime: I and the World's Top Daughters Have Our Five Senses Linked

Good news: now he could see the way forward again.

Bad news: that room for growth had been bought at the price of his strength declining.

At first, Surtalogi did not understand where that strange law came from, the one acting on him every moment, making all his power melt away like snow exposed beneath a blazing sun.

But after he was casually thrown into an unfamiliar universe—the Honkai: Star Rail Universe—by that man he had not even met face-to-face, Surtalogi slowly began to understand. Some higher-level law was fundamentally denying the Abyss.

More precisely, it was denying unchosen possibilities.

The Abyss was hatred born from unchosen fates. When even the very concept of unchosen possibilities was denied (Jiang Lianqiu: Why think so much? Historical nihilism is unacceptable! The objectively existing present reality is the foundation of everything), the hatred born from it naturally became rootless duckweed.

That was why his strength was declining.

That was why, among the power he had lost, the part draining away the fastest happened to be the portion he had first drawn from the Abyss and nurtured from there...

The thought filled Surtalogi with immense irritation.

Fortunately, after he fell from that unfamiliar universe into this even stranger one because of an accident—though he now suspected it might not have been an accident—Surtalogi discovered that the decline in his strength had stopped.

It seemed that the higher-level law could not reach this place for the time being.

Only, that fact made the irritation in his heart even worse.

As proud as he was, he would not feel joy at having luckily preserved his current strength for such a reason.

He would only feel humiliated.

So—

"I have to find... the cocoon."

Staring into the distant void, Surtalogi murmured in a low voice.

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